Omics Logic Research Fellowship

The Omics Logic research fellowship program offers an opportunity to students, researchers and citizen scientists an opportunity to work independently on a research project using bioinformatics with mentor support. The program started about a year ago and we had the chance to see many projects developed by research fellows during this time. Here are just a few examples that show the diversity of topics and research fellow backgrounds:

Of course, this is just a sample from many projects completed by each fellow over the course of several months. The process includes training, one-on-one mentor interaction and several presentations to fellow peers in the program. In fact, here is a short version of our 10-step process we follow:

1. Identify a topic by conducting literature review
2. Identify a dataset, reference publication and define a project question/focus of research
3. Make a table of meta-data for your dataset to include group names, number of samples and type of data in each dataset
4. Conduct exploratory analysis (PCA, Summary Stats, etc.) and share the results with your mentor by email or slack to get feedback and discuss analysis steps
5. Conduct data analysis and prepare all of the results in a presentation
6. Review biological databases and literature, compare your results with other findings, identify novel findings, address any issues
7. Present to mentor, peers and expert reviewer
8. Finalize presentation, record and submit final project for the program
9. Identify poster, publication or presentation opportunities with your mentor for the project
10. Finish by submitting the final project

As a result, fellows get access to support and training to start and complete a project in 3 or 6 months. The process is long, but well worth it. Here is how one of the fellows reflects on this experience:

If you are interested to take on a project yourself, we wlecome you to join us. To register, visit: https://fellowship.omicslogic.com

And if you are interested to be a mentor, providing support for students and helping them select a project, find data or conduct their analysis, consider our next open session during the summer: https://edu.tbioinfo.com/omicslogic-mentors